I don’t know how many people know this but activating D3NT is a real breeze in v7.5.x because activations are provided transparently over the internet. Hmmm, this seems to dove-tail with the Web Services blogs.

If you have any interest in my other postings on Web Services for MV, or you’re still not sure why you should be interested, you must read this article at InformationWeek called “Why IT Needs To Push Data Sharing Efforts“. That explains briefly and in clear terms how and why the rest of the world [...]

As discussed in another blog, I recently created a new product which will make it a LOT easier for MV developers to make their applications accessible via Web Services. This blog/article goes deeper into explaining what that product does and the thought process in creating it.

We have a new product that’s in a highly functional alpha status and I’d like to enter into discussions with people to discuss required features. In short, this allows BASIC subroutines to quickly render as Web Services for inbound requests from trading partners. It’s primarily an end-user product but of course VARs are welcome to [...]

In the jBase forum someone was recently looking for a jBase tutorial for Oracle/RDBMS users, or for someone new to databases in general. Many years ago I did a presentation called Pick for Relational Experts. It included the points presented here, which apply to all Pick/MultiValue DBMS platforms. I welcome others to compare and contrast [...]

For many years Pick developers have relied on a trick to extract the last value element from a multi-valued attribute. I don’t have access to internal F-correlative code to explain why it really works but I can provide an explanation based on observations, along with a couple variations of the trick to explore how it [...]

If you’re a .NET developer and interested in Facebook development, the FBGraph.NET SDK is definitely going to be of value. Keep an eye on the project for when it gets published. Here are today’s notes

I’ll start this new blog category with a blunt statement. I really dislike Facebook. It’s a wildly popular website/platform/application, but it’s very poor quality software. That said, I plan to write applications that integrate with Facebook (and other sites like Twitter, Google apps, etc) so I’ll document in this section my thoughts and experiences with [...]

One of our colleagues just announced she’s moving from MV to .NET. I haven’t written a blog entry for a while here so I thought I’d share some random thoughts on the topic.

We’ve been informed that Permanent activations for NebulaXLite have suddenly de-activated at a couple sites. This same situation occurred about four months ago. The working theory is that a Windows Update replaces some key OS files that are used as “supposedly” consistent markers. The fastest solution to the problem is simply to generate a new [...]